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Get wealth and power, if possible by grace,
If not, by any means, get wealth and place.
Get wealth and power, if possible by grace,
If not, by any means, get wealth and place.
Souldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.
Souldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.
The War is not don so long as my Enemy lives.
The War is not don so long as my Enemy lives.
The judge is condemned when the guilty is acquitted.
[Lat., Judex damnatur cum nocens absolvitur.]
The judge is condemned when the guilty is acquitted.
[Lat., Judex damnatur cum nocens absolvitur.]
The heart of kings is unsearchable.
The heart of kings is unsearchable.
Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.
Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.
God strikes with his finger, and not with all his arme.
God strikes with his finger, and not with all his arme.
It is, I believe, better to restrain the passions of youth by a
sense of shame, and by conciliatory read more
It is, I believe, better to restrain the passions of youth by a
sense of shame, and by conciliatory means, than by fear.
